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Manuel historique et bibliographique de l'amateur de reliures

by: Gruel, Léon, 1841-1923

Publication date: 1887
Topics: Bookbinding, Bookbinding
Publisher: Paris : Gruel & Engelmann,ʹediteurs ..
Collection: getty; americana
Contributor: Getty Research Institute
Language: French
Volume: v.2
Item Size: 591.3M

Title in red and black

Illustations: 3 facsimiles and 137 reproductions in colors of fine bindings, together with numerous vignettes, initial letters, etc., in the text

Pt. 1. Printer's device on title page; device of Robert Englemann on verso of final leaf

Pt. 2. Printed by Lʹeon Gruel [and] Henri Leclerc; devices of Lʹeon Gruel on title page and verso of final leaf

Colophon of pt. 1. Achevʹe d'mprimer à Paris par Robert Englemann, le 30 Juin 1887

Printed paper wrappers

Pt. 1. "Cet ouvrage a ʹetʹe tirʹe a mille exemplaires tous numʹerotʹes"; Pt. 2. "Cette seconde partie a ʹetʹe tirʹee a sept exemplaires tous bynʹerotʹes."

[1. ptie.] Prʹeface -- ʹEtude sur l'origine du format des livres -- Introduction gʹenʹerale -- Manuel alphabʹetique -- Additions. Documents survenus pendant l'impression -- Bibliographie des relatifs a la reliure. -- 2. ptie. Prʹeface -- Reliures de forme bizarre et irrʹegulière -- Manuel alphabʹetique -- Additions. Documents survenus pendant l'impression --Liste alphabʹetique des noms de relieurs citʹes dans les tomes I et II de cet ouvrage